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Can you imagine how I feel at 25? Like somewhere between a toddler and a baby...
Hah, 40s are the new 20s, right? Thanks for the congrats, I have really enjoyed learning about my favorite PAs and fellow DAs. I haven't been here long, but in lurking the threads for a while, I definitely got the sense that the Daz community was a welcoming and supportive one. If I've added to that in some small measure, that's awesome!
Just think of the journey you'll have with such a great runway!
But you are, my dear, you are, now take the pacifier and go make some nice art
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Despite being involved with BBSes way back when I'm only 42.. one of my parents is a techy so we had computers in the house way before the general population.
I never caught that explanation... To be honest, I figured you were a tough chic or perhaps had a character (in something you drew or wrote... for some reason I never thought of gaming) that solved problems with their fists.
Growing up, two girls I was friends with (and still am after 30 years) earned the nicknames "Punchy and Kicky". I guess that's why I thought that.
I tend to wonder about people's usernames sometimes, especially if it's one I see often or its clever.... Apparently I also like to make up backstories too.
If you let others decide who is an artist and who is not, then there would only be a handful in this world, and only because the people deciding who could hold that title were able to make money off of their creations...
Regardless, that's a very cool story, with a very deep meaning... I shall remember that whenever I see your name!
I've been known to punch Darc in the arm if he's being a remarkable twit.. but never hard enough to leave a mark. But I fight with my vocal cords when I fight at all.. I'm a "leave the situation" type of person.
...being in my 60s I wish I were still in my 40s as my arthritis and poor circulation hand't yet set in as bad as they are now.
My oldest child is 42...
Now I feel like one of those "adopted children of community". You know, like the one who doesn't have any parents, but the whole village tends to.
Yep, if you start early, it's harder to quit. I'll be a hopeless case by the time I reach the age of the regular user. A DAZaholic with a ruined... mind? Vision? What does DAZ ruin in your body (as analogy to alcohol, smoking and drugs)?
Thats how I grew up... Only it was wolves, not people and there was more biting and less tending to.
@Chanteur-le-vent You could have started with 3D art as a teenager! I started originally with Poser about 10 years ago, but if this had been around when I was a teenager or even 9 or 10, I would have been all over it. Kids have such an advantage now with technology. There are elementary schools teaching coding as a requirement. What a future this will be!
If that was spoken and written human languages, I'd be cheering, since we are about the only country (I'm in the US) where knowledge of more than one language seems to be discouraged, unless you happen to be from a family or cultural group that has held onto the old ways and teaches their young folks something other than English at a young age. Not that I think it's bad to encourage learning computer programming at a young age, of course.
You just painted a beautiful and moving picture with your words, Randy. You, sir, are an artist. At least in my book. And you are what you say you are. If you say you're an artist, you are. Art, like beauty, is highly subjective. People like you, who can write beautifully, are no less of an artist than a guy who works with clay. He sculpts with his hands, writers sculpt with their words. I don't know whether or not you are a writer, but after reading that, I think maybe you can be. :)
When I was 15 we had one computer in the house, which would be occupied by my father all evening. I remember him being annoyed when I had to send around some e-mails continiuesly to finish a school project, which required him giving me like half an hour of the "computer time". Most of the things I would do on that computer would be googling music and pretty pictures. I doubt anyone would allow me to use Poser on that computer. Leave alone the cost of the program.
But yes, as the technology advances, I guess kids could get something like a DAZ course as a choice in school. Together with "Java for beginners" and "How to build your first computer game in Open GL". What we had in school was 'How to use MS Word" and "How to use Paint". Together with "How to make a printscreen".
Hmm.. in middle school we were taught Basic on C64s... in high school I took AP Pascal, but that was sort of elective, I could have chosen biology for my science credit.
I have very unfond memories of Basic on the C64, it was extemely basic indeed. This was a pity since the machine had a very sophisticated graphics chip, by the standards of the time.
Nowadays, I use free-format RPG IV, just about the cleverest computer language, for manufacturing software, currently available.
Cheers,
Alex.
Thats how I started my computer languages as well (though I had Biology on top of it and left Physiks in turn) but at home my older brother would occupy the computer nerd position so I was reduced to bystander.
The C64 was the first machine I saved up and bought. I'd done undergraduate robotics work with a Commodore PET, so I was already familiar with the architecture.
Thing is, even now with two 32GB machines on my desk (one Mac, one PC), I still find it hard to get out of the 8-bit mindset of making every byte count. I really hate "wasting" polys . . .
Yeah, me too.. really causes issues with clothing sometimes though. Sub-D plus smoothing plays havok in certain areas like hip bones, collar bones, and shoulderblades with lower poly mesh.
Only your bank account....
...and sometimes your patience when rendering in Iray using CPU mode.
Funny thread! Well, SlimerJSpud is a nom de guerre I ended up with a long time ago out of desperation to find a user name that wasn't already taken. It's a play on Elmer J. Fudd of cartoon fame, and the Slimer character from the Ghostbusters original movie. Slimer became one of the good guys in the cartoon series incarnation of the franchise. I used to use the tagline, "I'm the slime oozing out from your TV set" which is a line from the Frank Zappa song, "I'm The Slime". Before getting into Daz Studio, I used the name "Mediasponge". I use that on ShareCG. When I signed up at Daz, the name Mediasponge was inexplicably taken, but I could find no posts under that name, so I went with SlimerJSpud. I still think the Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd opera "Kill the Wabbit" is one of the high points of world culture...
My avatar is a piece of laser art I created ages and ages ago. It's original title is "Spiderman's Ghost". I like it because it's easy to spot scrolling through a forum.
I am totally resurrecting this AMAZING thread for newcomers to see. I hope they check it out!
And I'll add something to it.
Here, and in email, and my website, I'm 'dreamfarmer'. Way back in college (I'm turning 41 in a few days, to give you a sense of scale) we could add tags next to our 8-character intranet accounts. I wanted something that described both my weird creativity and my extremely pragmatic approach to life. I brainstormed some and ended up using both "World's Soul" (inspired by an e.e. cummings poem) and "Dreamfarmer". Worldsoul is an idea I use in my fiction sometimes now but it seemed a little pretentious to use when I escaped into the greater internet.
Because I'm whimsical and I don't always know if I want an account linked to my real identity, sometimes I create an account and I use 'exstarsis'. This is what happened with deviantArt; back when I made an account it had a certain reputation. Anyhow, I THINK 'Exstarsis' originated as a name, but it might have been a word? I know that at one point I was doing some deep metaphysical design work and I came up (out of nowhere) with a number of interesting words, including that one. I also know, at another point, I was playing a high-level mage named Exstarsis in an old-school D&D game my partner was running. At one point, we were coming back to our town from an exhausting set of battles and another wizard jumped out of nowhere to challenge me to a duel. I looked through my depleted spell list, found one I hadn't used, and cast it before he really finished his challenge. He failed his saving throws. The spell was 'Disintegrate'. My partner burst out laughing, since she'd expected an epic, last-ditch battle scene. Anyhow, ever since then, I've associated Exstarsis with a cranky, powerful woman with a lot on her hands and a look that can kill. And now that I'm a mom of a 9 year old and a 5 year old I love it even more.
But mostly when I make accounts on the internet, I just use 'Chrysoula', which is my real name. It's Greek, I'm named after my grandmother, but I think I'm pretty much the only fiction writer in the English language with that first name, which means people who can remember that can find me on Amazon without needing to try to also remember my last name. I keep forgetting that's not actually what I signed up as here.
I initally wanted a really iconic name that people would remember when I set up my first AOL account. My real name had already been taken and AOL offered it to me with a number after it, but who wants a name that implies that they're not the number 1 person with their own name? Not me, so I plunked in a second choice referring to one of my favorite movies... but while it was available for AOL, it wasn't available for another site I wanted to join. And the same thing happened with my third choice, and a few more. At that point I realized that I could probably keep playing name lottery for a while or I could intentionally mispell something obvious and add a number and have a name that would almost certainly never be duplicated no matter where I went. So, I played around with a couple of words that had cyber in them and ended up changing cybersex to the much more ridiculous cybersox and then added the one number most people would intentionally avoid, 13. And, thus far, it's worked just fine for every single site I've tried to use it on since.
I always just thought you liked socks.... Man! I feel blind.
We learn a lot in this thread, this is cool :). My name is a joke made by a friend of mine when I talked him that I will work on 3D as a hobby. At that time, I have 3DsMax 1.3, the first IBM PC and no money left in my piggybank. "3Djoji" is the contraction of "georgy" (pronounce DJODGY without the "R") standing for my firstname "georges" and the "3D". This is not a great story but it was so fun at that time that I still keep it.
Mine is just my last name and "art". Nothing fancy. I've had other screen names but this one or LaurieA is the one I usually end up using - just for ease of use. I was much more imaginative in my youth ;). I'm an older person, like a lot in this thread (32 when I started with Vue d'Esprit and the 3D community and 52 now).
Laurie
I know for a long time when I first started here I saw a lot of people refer to you as "he" - I'm guessing because of the "Allen" part of your user name. lol I've corrected quite a few people since then but I think most of the community realizes now that you're a woman. lol Signing your posts as "Laurie" helped a lot, I think. :)